Profile: WTF\|SturM

Personal background
Hello, I am Philip Gould. I am 39 years old, married and a regional IT
Manager who lives in a small village, south of London, England.

I first became interested in Cosmology at a very young age and by the time
Neal Armstrong made the "giant leap for mankind" I was already addicted to
finding out more about the Universe that we live in. In fact, that very
night Neal Armstrong stepped on the Moon for the very first time, my
parents, knowing how "space crazy" woke my up so I could watch it on
television, I will never forget that moment, it is still as fresh in my mind
as the day it happened.

As I grew older (and wiser hopefully) I started to wonder that as their are
literally trillions an trillions and trillions of stars in our wonderful
Universe, if a small percentage had planets orbiting them, and from those, a
smaller percentage had Earth like planets orbiting them, then there MUST be
millions of planets with abundant life. Well, my reckoning was that due to
the age of the Universe, there are probably civilisations that are far older
than "mankind" within it an probably in our galaxy too.

I heard about the wonderful SETI at Home project on British news back in
1999 and thought that, I too must play a very small part in helping the top
Scientists to search for these civilisations. I have been since then, and
will continue to play my small part in trying to find these civilisations,
for it will be the most important discovery in human history.

Philip Gould

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
To paraphrase Carl Sagan, well if there isn't any extraterrestrial life, why
all this space? Have we been visited, no I don't think so.

Whether we transmit a beacon or not, we have in fact been doing this since
Marconi invented the radio, so our signals are already about 80 light years
distant. We should, in my opinion advertise ourselves, just look at what we
have been transmitting since radio, some good, some bad and some downright
ugly. We should tell the Universe, "Hey, we are mankind, we have our faults,
but on the whole we are good and of course, a very curious species"

I run the SETI at home screensaver as a permanent application and not just
when my screensaver is activated. I have a dual CPU PC which makes me one of
the lucky one's so I can run it night and day. It also runs on my work PC's
night and day. This project is incredibly important, and the more people
that can play a part the better. I shall be running SETI at home for as long
as I can, (Till death do us part :-) ).


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